AVR-Chat

Paul, 

> > Or, why did you choose an AVR for your jobs ? In what kinds of 
> > projects,
> AVRs are the best choice ?
> 
> For me, I choose them for several reasons
> 1) They are Fast, most instructions are 1 clock per 
> instruction, not 4 clocks like certain other micros.
> 2) Good support for C
> 3) Great on board features, like hardware USARTs, PWM, ADCs, etc
> 
> I looked at PICs, when I began playing, they're slower, have 
> less features and almost no support for C coding.
> 
> Paul (still after a 32Mhz AVR!)

Try a 16MHz MSP430.  :-)  The 21xx families are 16 bit and run at 16MHz.

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Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd  http://www.rowley.co.uk
CrossWorks for MSP430, ARM, and (soon) Atmel AVR processors